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This is quite a common tune here in Sydney. It was composed by John Nolan. I e-mailed him to ak his permission to post this and he kindly wrote back, telling me that he would send me a hand-written manuscript so that I’d be posting the correct version, or at least the one that was originally written. There are a few different settings of this reel, one of which was recorded by Terry Bingham under the name "The Durrow Reel". However, I have transcribed the manuscript directly into ABC as written by John Nolan himself, plus all the box-friendly triplet ornamentation. At the bottom it says "written by: John Nolan copyright 1978", so take heed any public performers/recorders or whatever. The name "Boogie" was the nickname of the keyboard player in his band, Keith Sammut.

Reel of Bogie

I remember hearing (&learning) this tune from a recording of Billy McComiskey. He called it the Reel of Bogie and then launches into the Contraversial.Was not aware that it was a contemporary effort-but it fits so well into the tradition that you’d hardly know it. Great tune, Dow thanks for the info.Keep it up!

Greenwiggle, the person who taught this reel to me I assume got it from you originally :-) I also learnt it as "The Bogie Reel", but that is the wrong title - there’s a different tune called that by the way.

Bogie/Boogie

I love Josephine Marsh’s version, I heard her play it live and it immediately caught my attention… Interesting to read that it was composed by Nolan, I first thought it was a version of the Bogie reel, to me the A-part sounds very much like the B-part in the Bogie.